The photographers are 100% in the right here. They made the image, not KK... she’s just in it. People who are in images don’t own them because they’re in them. There are issues of privacy and use that complicate the issue for sure, but copyright protects the creators (photographers, artists, writers, etc).

Had she agreed to the photograph or benefitted financially, I would understand. But if some rando takes my photograph on the street, they can copyright and benefit, and I have zero recourse?

I think that Mad Men’s use of Weber’s work as inspiration is a great example of the gray area of creative rights laws. Personally, as a professional artist (designer) I think that this is a true transference of concepts even though the inspiration is super obvious because style can’t be copywritten, and I don’t think…

I think this is probably the case. Her use of an image on Instagram is very different from a giant, crowd-funded mural. I also read somewhere that he was selling merchandise with the image on it, which makes the whole thing much worse for him.

Well, copyright protects not only existing profitability but future profitability. So even if this mural isn’t making anyone any money, it could make this artist (the thief) money going forward in the form of merchandise, etc. And more abstractly, it would have allowed him to gain notoriety as an artist, allowing him…

Kelly, I know you love romance novels so I am totally going to go out on a limb slash overstep my bounds as a lowly commenter and suggest you check out my best friend’s most recent romance novel: A Ballroom Temptation. I wrote about it on Groupthink, there are good reviews, too! http://groupthink.kinja.com/my-best-frie…

You mean again? lol yeah I think so — he doxxed somebody in those Jez threads yesterday. I think it’s all cleaned up now, but I was reading while he was riled up and he really went for the troll gold.

You’re right but ignore this butthole. I am pretty sure it’s Locomotive Jones, racist extraordinaire, with a new Kinja handle.

Damnit, already? I actually dig “nude” colored leather shoes a lot. That thing about legs looking longer is dumb, but I really like light, buttery tan leather... which is what good “nude” is. (Though damn, I hate the word nude so much I keep putting it in scare quotes.)

Let me tell you a story of a vacation and a pain management issue. Last month (March) I spent a week with my husband and two of our friends in a gorgeous villa in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. At the time — and still, though it’s since been re-diagnosed thanks to an MRI — I was having severe and chronic pain. I live in…

Sorry, I think I replied to the wrong person.

I wouldn’t reply to a troll normally, but this whole discussion is already deeply fucked, so I gotta say... as trolls go, you are fucking impressive. Look at those time stamps! Speedy fingers. Now — get your shit off this site.

I think she did an amazing job of portraying a very old woman in a much younger woman’s body. Her movements (mostly) say “old” but she is obviously not.

I appreciate your smart and nuanced take on this topic but I wish it weren’t wrapped up in what appears at first glance to be the defense of a really terrible, overly simplistic argument directly equating two procedures you yourself have said are unequal.

I actually knew there are multiple kinds of FGM — though, thank you, I didn’t know they are three distinct types (I saw one other, longer reply you made) — but I do not believe the two procedures are analogous just because one version of FGM is significantly less extreme.

Thank you, those are good thoughts. I wish you were higher in this convo!

No, a cis woman came in and sprayed her privilege all over this article [...] “Cutting of parts of dicks is totally cool guys”. [...] But she wanted second wave brownie points, so here we are. Yay.

This is a pretty young person, I am almost certain. She is well-intentioned, but also kind of myopic, I think.

You brought up penile circumcision on an FGM post in the first place. You did the exact same thing that MRAs do. I realize you did it for entirely different reasons — as I wrote, your experience is important and valid — but it is NOT this. You are a woman who experienced penile circumcision and that is not what is…

I agree with you that effective change can’t be forced from the outside, but what about the agency of the girls who have not been cut yet? How can the rights of both sets of women be protected?